I thought we needed one of AndiF’s winter photos to remind us it’s January, since the weather has been so balmy.
I see I missed FM’s visit to the cafe…darn. Between being sick and getting back into the swing of things at work, I haven’t had much time to do more than read the blog -I keep falling asleep by 8:30. CBtY and I were watching tee vee together last night, and I fell asleep on him. I’m glad this is my last day in the office this week.
How is everyone doing? Did the winter weather makes its Thursday appearance yet?
I’ve been so busy that I’m doing only drive-bys lately. I’ve actually been a bit surprised by some of the recent comment threads that I’ve been able to read. Poor BooMan.
Our weather turned from lovely to rainy today and by tomorrow, we may be seeing landscapes like the one above. The oracle predicts 1 – 2″ for southern Indiana (subject to change, o’ course).
Heh. I laugh in the face of tantrums..bwahahahaha. 🙂
It’s so much easier the third time around. And some of what Finny does is really funny, like saying “no, no, bad” every time he hears someone mention “work”, because he doesn’t want me to go there. Good thing I’m done with being in the office this week.
It’s snowing here. We’ve gotten the call from the power company warning households with seniors/disabled folks that we may have an outage & to find alternate lodging. As always, we hope for the best — since we’re not going anywhere.
Our forecast here is definitely turning wintry — rain turning to snow today, snow tonight (not much accumulation thouhg), winds of up to 30 mph, low tonight of 15, and a high Friday of 22.
Our low for overnight was -10F. That’s the lowest for this season as far as I know. It was sunny most of the day so that’s helped warm the house up, well that and the woodstove.
73F indoors now, but I’m doing an archeological dig (spanning three decades or so) in my basement. Temp there is 55F. Nice to have AC when you’re working;)
What a strange culture the residents of this place had… to have accumulated such “treasures.”
Oh, I love old stuff like that! Way back in my construction days, a crew I was working with broke through a wall in an old house and found a big stack of magazines and a Sears catalog from the late 1920s. We were delighted and spent the rest of the afternoon browsing the ads and articles. The magazine was called “Country Comforts” IIRC.
EcoLite
Economy Electric Lantern Company Milwaukee
Made in the USA ( therefore must be a genuine antique)
Stands about 12″ tall and looks to be in pretty good shape. I may just do a rehab on it one of these days.
I’m fairly certain it needs a six volt battery. I’ll probably rig 4 recycleable AAs, just for demonstration purposes.(I never did care for those 6v batteries. Too expensive even back in the day for how long they lasted.) I’m wondering if they made round 6v batteries, all I remember are the square bottomed ones.
I must have gone to bed too early last night! I was up from 1 to 2:30, and now I’m wide awake again. And winter has arrived here- it is bitter cold out.
Ah well, I guess this means an early start on grocery shopping. I think we’re using the smoker today, so we can have barbecue during the giants game and then watch this week’s episode of Shameless.
Good morning CG! I’m off to the gym then grocery and clothes shopping for the b2 boy. His jeans look like flood pants with too much sock showing. He’ll be taller than me in no time.
I remember hen the CBs were shorter thanme….I tease them sometimes that we had to have Finny so I wouldn’t be the shortest person in the house anymore. 😉
Giants are on, pork is in the smoker, I have a new knitting project going…how did the weekend fly byso fast?
Playing in water is always a fun time for those two — unless they are inside the house, it’s raining, and they should go out before we go to bed. Then it’s clearly deadly and must be avoided at all costs … at least until I’ve been asleep for a couple of hours.
This is the doggy version of asking your kid if he has to go potty before putting on the snowsuit and boots and scarves and mittens….and he insists he doesn’t. Well, you know the rest….
So….how the hell is everyone? Me? I’ve been a bit swamped at work and enjoying a brief bit of winter weather (although we’ll be back to mostly springish weather for the next week it appears).
Jim and our enjoying being retired — all kinds of new freedoms and experiences — with Jim having been a teacher, it hit me the other day how “weird” it was to be in a car with him in a school zone with lights flashing because children are present. 🙂
Winter has returned here in terms of temps but we’ve had very little snow.
That’s funny how that would seem ‘weird’. I’m feeling a little envious of your retirement…I guess I still have a while to go before that happens for me. 🙂
I am excited about the new “team” rules for 2012: we’re not working late unless it’s absolutely necessary, and the plan is for people to be done by 5 at the latest every day…just see if we’re willing to pull in double our budget goals for the year again with nary a thank you, corporate weinies.
IIRC, some years ago at the Philly IRS Center an employee cleaned up every Friday by simply shredding anything that was left on the desk. You might see how that would work out <but, shhh, don’t tell anyone>.
In my corner of Dixie, I fear any snowfall will simply shut things down altogether (snow plows are typically low on the list of priorities for many municipalities in the region from what I can gather). Last winter was an absolute nightmare for us, and of course our kids did not much enjoy the extended school year to make up all the days missed. We’ve been spared that. However, it is a little jarring to see plants trying to bud or flower in January and for critters that are normally dormant (such as toads and turtles) out and about. I suspect we’ll pay for all the mildness later in the year.
The whole concept of retirement would probably seem “weird” to me. I’m not really sure what I will do with myself when the time comes – Madame has many nightmares about the prospect. 🙂
I made an abortive attempt at retirement last year by not running for my full-time county office again, only to be sabotaged by a win to another position. At least its part-time. Mrs. ID fills in the rest of the to-do list.
Both Jim and I are just enjoying doing nothing much at the moment. I’m sure it will get old soon but it isn’t boring yet. We have some travel plans for later this year and after that we’ll probably look at where we would like to volunteer.
They’re a very hard-working, dedicated group. You might like the Canine Express, where they find homes for dogs in other states and deliver. Nice trips to New England, I hear. I know the woman who runs the program and would, of course, give you a glowing reference;-)
The Canine Express is a volunteer run transport program that transports Indiana dogs to shelters in the New England area where there is not an overpopulation problem like we have here in Indiana. Dogs are in demand!
The Canine Express schedules and transports 80-100 dogs monthly from the Brown County Humane Society and surrounding shelters to a handful of New England shelters where they have a better chance to be adopted. These lucky dogs usually find forever homes very quickly.
Went out after dark last night to see if it had begun snowing and was unpleasantly surprised by a near-disastrous fall on the nearly-invisible ice. A little soreness in the shoulder, but nothing broken. Some world-class slacking accomplished here this morning.
I’m looking forward to the luxury of having that time to do the things I like. So much of what fills my days now has to do with work, even when I’m not there.
The elementary school lost a big piece of roof during the night, estimated the size of 4 classrooms. I woke up about 2 am to the roaring just about the time our power went off. Got it back before daylight.
Huh, it didn’t even seem that bad here — there was some really, really hard rain, wind, and a bit of thunder and lightning but that was about all. And it’s kind of weird you would lose power and we didn’t.
I was wondering how you made out in the electricity dept. I think something shorted the Duke Energy main feed east of town. The fire dept. got called to deal with a sparking transformer there just after the lights went off. I remember thinking how grateful I am those chilly, middle-of-the-night calls are over for me.
I still monitor the radio traffic, so can experience the excitement vicariously without the extremes of cold, heat, chemical exposure, building collapse, explosion, etc. Much more comfy here at home while I cheer my old comrades on to victory!
I thought we needed one of AndiF’s winter photos to remind us it’s January, since the weather has been so balmy.
I see I missed FM’s visit to the cafe…darn. Between being sick and getting back into the swing of things at work, I haven’t had much time to do more than read the blog -I keep falling asleep by 8:30. CBtY and I were watching tee vee together last night, and I fell asleep on him. I’m glad this is my last day in the office this week.
How is everyone doing? Did the winter weather makes its Thursday appearance yet?
It’s January! Love that pic. Get some rest, CG.
I’ve been so busy that I’m doing only drive-bys lately. I’ve actually been a bit surprised by some of the recent comment threads that I’ve been able to read. Poor BooMan.
Our weather turned from lovely to rainy today and by tomorrow, we may be seeing landscapes like the one above. The oracle predicts 1 – 2″ for southern Indiana (subject to change, o’ course).
I would be okay with some winter at this point…
Did I miss an exciting comment thread?
Hope Booman is feeling better at this point.
No winter weather here yet– maybe late tonight. Looks like very chilly temperatures for next week. Like January.
Wishing everyone the best at Chez Cabin. Remember: ‘this too shall pass.’
🙂
Heh. I laugh in the face of tantrums..bwahahahaha. 🙂
It’s so much easier the third time around. And some of what Finny does is really funny, like saying “no, no, bad” every time he hears someone mention “work”, because he doesn’t want me to go there. Good thing I’m done with being in the office this week.
We’re just getting a cold rain here now.
“No, no, bad’– a man after my own heart.
🙂
Glad you’re done for the week.
It’s snowing here. We’ve gotten the call from the power company warning households with seniors/disabled folks that we may have an outage & to find alternate lodging. As always, we hope for the best — since we’re not going anywhere.
Your power company warns you? Amazing. Ours doesn’t even tell us when they cut the power on purpose.
Hope your power defies the weather gods.
Ours doesn’t even seem to realize it’s gone off when we call them. Sigh.
So far, so good.
X
Today will be the real test with the high winds. Hopefully it will hold out.
Windy and freezing here, but we still (amazingly) have power.
Hope you’re farther and gooder. 🙂
Sounds like Finny was born to be retired.
Our forecast here is definitely turning wintry — rain turning to snow today, snow tonight (not much accumulation thouhg), winds of up to 30 mph, low tonight of 15, and a high Friday of 22.
Olivia will be putting up the diary a little later. The theme is Whatever Janus the two-faced god suggests to you.
See ya there.
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Our low for overnight was -10F. That’s the lowest for this season as far as I know. It was sunny most of the day so that’s helped warm the house up, well that and the woodstove.
73F indoors now, but I’m doing an archeological dig (spanning three decades or so) in my basement. Temp there is 55F. Nice to have AC when you’re working;)
What a strange culture the residents of this place had… to have accumulated such “treasures.”
Oh, I love old stuff like that! Way back in my construction days, a crew I was working with broke through a wall in an old house and found a big stack of magazines and a Sears catalog from the late 1920s. We were delighted and spent the rest of the afternoon browsing the ads and articles. The magazine was called “Country Comforts” IIRC.
Just my kind of thing too. Check back later I’ll have a photo of one of my favorite artifact, so far.
EcoLite
Economy Electric Lantern Company Milwaukee
Made in the USA ( therefore must be a genuine antique)
Stands about 12″ tall and looks to be in pretty good shape. I may just do a rehab on it one of these days.
I’m fairly certain it needs a six volt battery. I’ll probably rig 4 recycleable AAs, just for demonstration purposes.(I never did care for those 6v batteries. Too expensive even back in the day for how long they lasted.) I’m wondering if they made round 6v batteries, all I remember are the square bottomed ones.
Cool!
Yeah, a real cutie.
And both the bottom and the handle swivel on that center pin.
We used to call those square 6 volts dry cells. Haven’t seen one in years.
right! When I get back to the city I’ll go in the hardware store and ask for a 6 volt dry cell, and see what they say!
Good luck!
Ah, you should have saved that for next month — you could have cropped it to the dome and the handle and see if we could figure it out.
Yeah, that would have worked good all right. Guess I’ll have to come up with something else.Hmmm, the plot t’ickens.
I have high expectations of you; you always come up with really good what-is-it stuff (as befits the inventor of the game).
Next month’s “What is it” Flog, that is.
Its snowing again and the landscape now looks a whole lot more like Andi’s photo above.
Except this snow is so light and dry it’s barely sticking to flat surfaces, let alone trees.
Jewel, a wild bear in N MN to give birth within 24hrs.
bear den live cam
I’ll have to go back and check later. Right now she seems to be comfortably asleep.
I must have gone to bed too early last night! I was up from 1 to 2:30, and now I’m wide awake again. And winter has arrived here- it is bitter cold out.
Ah well, I guess this means an early start on grocery shopping. I think we’re using the smoker today, so we can have barbecue during the giants game and then watch this week’s episode of Shameless.
What are you all up to today?
Good morning CG! I’m off to the gym then grocery and clothes shopping for the b2 boy. His jeans look like flood pants with too much sock showing. He’ll be taller than me in no time.
I remember hen the CBs were shorter thanme….I tease them sometimes that we had to have Finny so I wouldn’t be the shortest person in the house anymore. 😉
Giants are on, pork is in the smoker, I have a new knitting project going…how did the weekend fly byso fast?
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Looks like a fun time!
Playing in water is always a fun time for those two — unless they are inside the house, it’s raining, and they should go out before we go to bed. Then it’s clearly deadly and must be avoided at all costs … at least until I’ve been asleep for a couple of hours.
Then Jim gets all the fun.
This is the doggy version of asking your kid if he has to go potty before putting on the snowsuit and boots and scarves and mittens….and he insists he doesn’t. Well, you know the rest….
Even worse if “he” is a girl.
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I sold one of my paintings, the Packard with reflections on the hood. Woohoo!
Awesome! Now we can see we knew you when. 🙂
Someone — unlike that art show jury — has stupendously good taste.
Yay! Congrats boran2!
Way to go!
So….how the hell is everyone? Me? I’ve been a bit swamped at work and enjoying a brief bit of winter weather (although we’ll be back to mostly springish weather for the next week it appears).
Jim and our enjoying being retired — all kinds of new freedoms and experiences — with Jim having been a teacher, it hit me the other day how “weird” it was to be in a car with him in a school zone with lights flashing because children are present. 🙂
Winter has returned here in terms of temps but we’ve had very little snow.
That’s funny how that would seem ‘weird’. I’m feeling a little envious of your retirement…I guess I still have a while to go before that happens for me. 🙂
I am excited about the new “team” rules for 2012: we’re not working late unless it’s absolutely necessary, and the plan is for people to be done by 5 at the latest every day…just see if we’re willing to pull in double our budget goals for the year again with nary a thank you, corporate weinies.
A sane work schedule sounds quite good.
IIRC, some years ago at the Philly IRS Center an employee cleaned up every Friday by simply shredding anything that was left on the desk. You might see how that would work out <but, shhh, don’t tell anyone>.
Yeah but I’ll bet you’re not that envious of the couple of decades I have on you. 🙂
I hope those rules hold; they sound great.
We’re going to be getting several episodes of snow in the next few days. And then it’s predicted to go up to the 50s. Go figure.
In my corner of Dixie, I fear any snowfall will simply shut things down altogether (snow plows are typically low on the list of priorities for many municipalities in the region from what I can gather). Last winter was an absolute nightmare for us, and of course our kids did not much enjoy the extended school year to make up all the days missed. We’ve been spared that. However, it is a little jarring to see plants trying to bud or flower in January and for critters that are normally dormant (such as toads and turtles) out and about. I suspect we’ll pay for all the mildness later in the year.
Same here — we’ve got snow and sleet forecast and then a jump from 32 on Saturday to the 55 on Sunday.
The whole concept of retirement would probably seem “weird” to me. I’m not really sure what I will do with myself when the time comes – Madame has many nightmares about the prospect. 🙂
I made an abortive attempt at retirement last year by not running for my full-time county office again, only to be sabotaged by a win to another position. At least its part-time. Mrs. ID fills in the rest of the to-do list.
Both Jim and I are just enjoying doing nothing much at the moment. I’m sure it will get old soon but it isn’t boring yet. We have some travel plans for later this year and after that we’ll probably look at where we would like to volunteer.
We like the county library ~ Mrs. ID volunteers, I browse & drowse, but you already know about it.
That’s a thought — I’m leaning toward the Humane Society. I know they use volunteers to take the dogs out for exercise.
They’re a very hard-working, dedicated group. You might like the Canine Express, where they find homes for dogs in other states and deliver. Nice trips to New England, I hear. I know the woman who runs the program and would, of course, give you a glowing reference;-)
Canine Express sounds like an interesting program. We might think about doing it at some point (though when the weather is more reliable).
Speaking of weather, radar has a bit of snow just entering our county to the west.
We didn’t get any snow — just freezing rain. There’s a thin veneer over everything but I’m guessing it’s so thin that the roads aren’t too bad.
We’re in the middle of a snowstorm now. We’re supposed to get 8 inches or so. And I didn’t do any panic shopping in preparation.
Went out after dark last night to see if it had begun snowing and was unpleasantly surprised by a near-disastrous fall on the nearly-invisible ice. A little soreness in the shoulder, but nothing broken. Some world-class slacking accomplished here this morning.
Sorry to hear that! Glad that you’re okay.
Ouch.
I’d rather how that snow than any freezing rain. But it’s going to warm up today so it will all be gone soon.
I’m looking forward to the luxury of having that time to do the things I like. So much of what fills my days now has to do with work, even when I’m not there.
Cold and icy here but the temps are rising. And it is sunny. Out to do everything we didn’t do yesterday. See ya later.
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If that’s a recent photo, I have a comment ~ brrrrrrr! From soggy to frozen solid and back to soggy again this morning ~ just too weird.
This was early in January when we had that string of days in the 50s so not that bad — though I wouldn’t have wanted to go in.
Yeah, I’m not really enjoying Mud Season in January.
The elementary school lost a big piece of roof during the night, estimated the size of 4 classrooms. I woke up about 2 am to the roaring just about the time our power went off. Got it back before daylight.
Huh, it didn’t even seem that bad here — there was some really, really hard rain, wind, and a bit of thunder and lightning but that was about all. And it’s kind of weird you would lose power and we didn’t.
I was wondering how you made out in the electricity dept. I think something shorted the Duke Energy main feed east of town. The fire dept. got called to deal with a sparking transformer there just after the lights went off. I remember thinking how grateful I am those chilly, middle-of-the-night calls are over for me.
Wonder if it was a lightning hit.
You can’t fool me — I’m sure you miss the excitement … of freezing your wants-to-be-in-bed ass off.
I still monitor the radio traffic, so can experience the excitement vicariously without the extremes of cold, heat, chemical exposure, building collapse, explosion, etc. Much more comfy here at home while I cheer my old comrades on to victory!
Member of the polar bear club!
Sniff is no lover of cold temps so although I didn’t personally test it, I’m pretty sure the water wasn’t that bad.
Sunshine! Temps in the 50s will finish off the snow. Woohoo! Beach weather!